>Dick, Variations on a theme: > Whenever I get into internal rebuilding, when removing the hardware. I >have always used a cardboard box with a drawn in picture of the rim. >then as i remove the plate hardware it goes directly onto the box in a >corresponding location of where it was located in the piano. I use a box lid with the plate drawn on it. Locations of all screws are marked and holes are punched (w/#1 Phillips) in those spots. The screws can then be screwed into the cardboard in their respective positions. Nose bolts get a strip of masking tape. for positioning I use wedges placed vertically between plate and rim or stretcher and pencil lines marked to show how far they go down. the position and number are written on lid. usually I do: 1-bass corner/rim, 2-bass corner/stretcher, 3-treb.corner/stretcher, 4-treb.corner/rim, 5-far end of plate/rim. If you are repainting the screw tops (as you should if you're repainting the plate) the lid can be used for spraying all at the same time, and a logical sequence of wedge placement will compensate for painting over your drawing. As others have said, good luck. Conrad Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu Luther College Music Technician pno2ner@salamander.com Decorah, Iowa 52101 Voice (319)-387-1204 Fax (319)-387-1076 Oh wad some power the giftie gie us; to see oursel's as others see us! It wad some monie a blunder free us, and foolish notion. - Robert Burns
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